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I have started writing Prequels; here is a list of them:

A Second First Date; One month after Aang defeated Fire Lord Ozai Aang had decided to take Katara out on a date… It was a special banquet in honor of The Avatar. Once they were there nothing was like it should have been for a first date… Katara didn't even get to sit near Aang. It was such a failure that Aang and Katara decided it didn't count, Aang asked er out on a second first date.

Nightmares; A One-Shot Prequel to Together Again. Aang saved the world, he faced Ozai on his own. Everyone kept saying that he was a great hero, that he was so brave. He wore a brave face and acted all the hero they thought he was. But at night in his sleep he was a scared boy, scared for his life as he tried to get away from a psycho Firebender. The Battle came back at night.

Anila's Story; this is another Prequel to Together Again. It's about a Young Female Airbender just starting out in life. She was ready to travel the world as soon as she turns 16. Little does she know, Destiny has a grand purpose for her first child(Aang).

I Want to thank my beta readers for their help, advice, and contributions: 116788 (pen name not user ID) and ReverieNishio

*116788 (pen name not user ID) is available to beta read for others; she has 3 slots open right now.

Chapter 109

Katara woke-up feeling sick, she laid still on her thin mat to calm her stomach. The last thing they needed to know was that she is pregnant; that would just be more leverage over Aang. She took slow breaths in blowing them out through her mouth, ' in through the nose, out through the mouth, in through the nose, out through the mouth' she mentally told herself. Unfortunately it only helped for a few minutes, she pushed herself up as quickly as he could and ran for her bucket.

After a few minutes of retching the door opened, and Li came in. "Are... Are you sick?" Li walked over to Katara, "Do you need anything?" the young woman was concerned.

Katara continued to retch for almost a half hour. When she finished she crawled over to her thin mat, laid back down and cried.

"Do you need anything? My dad told me I'm not supposed to bring you anything but I think you need something to eat and drink... I will have to tie your hands, if anything happens to you he will beat me... Let me see if I can sneak anything down to you... Lady Katara, I'm so sorry..." Li trailed off then unlocked the door and relocked it after closing it.

Twenty minutes later the woman came back. "I have to tie your hands, I'm so sorry, I don't want him to hurt me again."

Katara held her hands out in front of herself. "Does... Does he hurt you a lot?" Katara asked.

"I... I can't talk about it." She said. As soon as her hands were tied the woman brought in a tray of biscuits and some water. "I sneaked these out of the kitchen..." The woman picked up the cup and gave some to Katara; Katara purposely tipped her head to where a tiny bit dribbled down from the corners of her mouth, hoping the woman wouldn't think anything of it... And she didn't.

"Thank you so much Li." Katara said panting from drinking so much water. "Please don't tell anyone I was sick, I won't tell anyone you brought me the food and water."

Li untied Katara's hands then nodded; she left about 6 biscuits with Katara and hurried away before she got in trouble.

Katara collected the water that had dribbled down her face, it was just enough to try and break the lock. She hid it under her bucket hoping it wouldn't dry up too soon. Katara hid all but one of her biscuits under the corner of her mat, she ate it slowly making sure she would have enough to last her a while. Katara was scared; she ached inside thinking about how devastated her children must be, scared that eventually someone would try to force themselves on her. If she fought they might beat her or worse cause her to lose her baby. The thought of losing her baby, possibly another Airbender turned her sorrow into determination; she was determined to protect her baby no matter what... Even if it came down to her Bloodbending again.

Aang was up all night trying to connect with Katara again, it wasn't working and he couldn't figure out why. He had to find her; he had to protect his wife and unborn child. Thinking about this was driving him crazy with panic attacks, bursts of rage, and emotional lows. He was doing everything he could to keep from going into the Avatar state, the last thing his very young children needed was to be scared even more by seeing their Daddy glowing and talking with many voices, that would traumatize them for life, they would be afraid of him for life; even Aang thought seeing the Avatar state was really scary... and Katara was the only one who could bring him out when he goes in because of him emotions. If he had hair, he'd have ripped it out by now.

"How are you doing, Aang?" Suki asked as she came down stairs with Hakoda on her hip followed by Sokka with the twins, and Gyatso close behind.

"You should have come down and told me they were awake. I would have changed and dressed them." Aang said.

"We just thought we would be helpful, I know you are very... stressed." Sokka said to his brother-in-law.

"Morning Daddy... I miss Mommy." the little boy said as he is, once again, on the verge of tears.

Aang squatted to hug his little boy. "Hi Little One, I love you, and Mommy loves you. We are doing everything we can to find her, everyone is doing everything they can to help us right now. Let's get you some breakfast. What would you like to eat?"

"Can we have sweet rice?" Gyatso asked.

"Yes little one you can have sweet rice." Aang said.

"I'll start cooking breakfast." Suki said as she set Hakoda down.

Aang reached for his daughters hugging and kissing them each on their chubby cheeks, they were going to be turning one year old in about a week, and the thought of Katara not being here tore at him. 'I WILL FIND HER BEFORE THEIR BIRTHDAY' he told himself.

Today is the third day Katara saw the sun rise through the tiny window, the third day she had to rush to her bucket right before the sun light came streaming in. Unlike the first morning Li had not brought her water and biscuits the two days after; Katara had not had any visitors of any kind. Katara was lying on the thin mat crying without tears from dehydration, after spending half an hour retching into the horrible smelling bucket, lying down and crying was all she had any energy to do. She had finished the last quarter of biscuit the night before. She heard someone outside the door, the sound of keys jingling, the click the lock made as the bolt retracted, the creaking the heavy door made as it opened. Her full attention was on the door, her week muscles tightened readying herself for an oncoming attack.

Hide and Li came in the door; Hide took Katara's wrists and tied them as Li brought Katara some water. Katara gulped down several cup fulls, she was dehydrated, retching without anything coming out because she hadn't had anything to go in except for a few nibbles of biscuits every once in a while, to provide some source of nutrition to the fetus growing within her.

"Here, Lady Katara," Li said as she set down a tray with a bowl of rice, a fatty slab of some sort of meat, and some over cooked vegetables. "My father told me to bring you this... He said you are going to need all he energy you can get. I'm so sorry." Katara saw tears run down the woman's cheek, from the look in Li's eyes; Katara knew what she 'needed all the energy she could get' was planned to be used for. Li hung her head in shame; Katara was starting to wonder if this General has hurt his daughter in more ways than just hitting her.

"It's not your fault, I forgive you Li." Katara soothingly told the woman. "You are not the one doing this."

Li left the room with the water pitcher, she stood outside the door waiting for Hide to untie Katara's hands and come out also. Once Hide was out Li relocked the door and followed Hide down the hall and up the stairs.

As soon as they left, Katara picked up the bowl of rice and started shoveling it into her mouth with her fingers. She looked at the slab of meat and was torn inside; she had made the decision to become fully vegetarian, but on the other hand she was malnourished and she needed as much protean as possible, for herself and for the baby. She let out a loud sob then picked up the meat and began to tear at it with her teeth. "I'm sorry Aang, I'm just so hungry and we need the meat right now." She said with her mouth full.

Aang was sitting in the lotus position on his meditating pillow, he had been trying to connect with Katara for a few days and he couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. This time he had his beads in his hands, connecting with his past lives getting advice from them. None were really able to help, they all said the same thing to him and it made no sense at all. They all told him that there will be a full moon tomorrow night.

Aang came out of meditation but remained sitting on his pillow, he was rubbing a headache away when he heard a loud knock on the front door and then some commotion coming from the front room.

There was a knock on his bedroom door then the door slowly opened, he looked up and saw Jade enter the dark room she stood still letting her eyes adjust to the darkness. "Aang?" she whispered trying not to disturb him if he were sleeping or meditating.

"Yeah?" he said to her.

"Azula is here, she has some information but she won't tell anyone but you, her words." Jade told him.

"Ok, thank you Jade. Tell them I'll be down in a few minutes." Aang told her.

"Okay, I'll go tell them." Jade quickly left the room and went down stairs.

Aang lit the lights in the room with a quick hand movement and went into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror. He had tear tacks down his face, dark circles under his eyes and his cheeks sunk in a bit. He splashed water onto his face trying to rinse away the horrible looking man in the mirror. He dried his face off and walked down the stairs and into the front room. "What do you have for me?" Aang said a bit gruff with a hint of annoyance in his voice.

"I did some digging and a bit of torture and found out who it was that actually grabbed her. It was two men and a woman, the names of the men are Chan and Hide, and the woman's name is Li. I have been directed to see a few specific people that may know her exact whereabouts." Azula reported then left again.

Aang sat down and tried to think, "The name Hide sounds so familiar to me... Sokka do you remember anyone by the name of Hide?" They both sat in silence thinking.

Sokka spoke first, "Wasn't Hide the name of that guy that ruined your dance party in the cave?"

Aang remembered him as soon as Sokka reminded him. "Hide!" Aang's voice became what sounded like one thousand voiced saying the same thing at the same time, his eyes and tattoos flashed for a few seconds then he let out a breath, his children were sitting on the floor in front of him and they looked like they were going to cry. "I'm so sorry little ones." Aang said sitting on the floor next to them cuddling them. "I didn't mean to do that. I'm so so sorry."

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